Forestry

Publications

New releases
06/2022

In Assam, northeast India, the Himalayan foothill forests provide essential habitat for the Asian elephant. The natural vegetation in the region is moist deciduous forest, but this has mainly been transformed and now contains a mosaic of land uses and vegetation.

Forest Restoration Improvement for Environmental Development and Sustainability in Central Asia (FRIENDS)
05/2022

FRIENDS project aims to develop national capacities to successfully conduct large-scale forest and other wooded lands restoration, by enhancing know-how to prevent degradation.

Global indicators for monitoring ecosystem restoration
05/2022

The publication is the result of a joint effort by FAO and the UN Environment. The overall objective of this work is to contribute to the implementation of the UN Decade as well as to the UN Secretary-General’s reporting to the United Nations General Assembly at its eighty-first session.

FAO’s work on gender in forestry
05/2022

This brochure shows how the different initiatives, programmes and projects of the FAO Forestry Division mainstream gender into their implementing activities and contribute to strengthening gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Valuing, restoring and managing presumed drylands Cerrado, Miombo–Mopane woodlands and the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
05/2022

This study confirms the existence of 1,075 million hectares of presumed drylands that are under threat from unsustainable use and climate change.